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J Bacteriol. 1972 March; 109(3): 979-986
Copyright © 1972 American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Repair of Pyrimidine Dimer Damage Induced in Yeast by Ultraviolet Light

Michael A. Resnick1 and Jane K. Setlow

a Biology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830

ABSTRACT

Crude extracts from ultraviolet (UV)-irradiated yeast cells compete with UV-irradiated transforming deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) for photoreactivating enzyme. The amount of competition is taken as a measure of the level of cyclobutyl pyrimidine dimers in the yeast DNA. A calibration of the competition using UV-irradiated calf thymus DNA indicates that an incident UV dose (1,500 ergs/mm2) yielding 1% survivors of wild-type cells produces between 2.5 x 104 to 5 x 104 dimers per cell. Wild-type cells irradiated in the exponential phase of growth remove or alter more than 90% of the dimers within 220 min after irradiation. Pyrimidine dimers induced in stationary-phase wild-type cells appear to remain in the DNA; however, with incubation, they become less photoreactivable in vivo, although remaining photoreactivable in vitro. In contrast, exponentially growing or stationary-phase UV-sensitive cells (rad2-17) show almost no detectable alteration of dimers. We conclude that the UV-sensitive cells lack an early step in the repair of UV-induced pyrimidine dimers.

FOOTNOTES

1 Present address: Department of Radiation Biology and Biophysics, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, N.Y. 14642.

J Bacteriol. 1972 March; 109(3): 979-986
Copyright © 1972 American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.





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